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the Beverly Hills Hotel has always been a big meeting place for the celebs. Yeah, take the Polo Lounge, for instance. Yeah, the lounge used to have phones at the tables, and people used to— up-and-coming stars used to have people page them to the phones at th…
Wait, what does that mean?
Like, so you would— you can actually get telephones. They bring telephones to your table.
Okay.
And so they would— people would page people, oh, telephone call for Michael Douglas or Humphrey Bogart or Elizabeth Taylor, and then they would bring it to the phone, or they'd have the phone at the table.
Oh my God, just so your name was heard inside the Polo Lounge.
Oh my gosh, the whole celebrity thing is basically 90% of it's luck. And so lightning strikes, uh, very few places, but probably more place— more times at the Beverly Hills Hotel than anywhere else on the planet.